{"id":264596,"date":"2024-11-15T15:41:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T15:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/15\/how-we-misunderstood-what-the-lucy-fossil-reveals-about-ancient-humans\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:10:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:29","slug":"how-we-misunderstood-what-the-lucy-fossil-reveals-about-ancient-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/15\/how-we-misunderstood-what-the-lucy-fossil-reveals-about-ancient-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"How we misunderstood what the Lucy fossil reveals about ancient humans"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A reconstruction of the famous hominin Lucy<\/p>\n

Frank Nowikowski\/Alamy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology.\u00a0Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

One hundred years ago, on 28 November 1924, anthropologist Raymond Dart opened a crate. It held a consignment of fossils from Taung, a quarry in South Africa, including a small skull that looked part-ape, part-human. Dart named it \u201cAustralopithecus africanus<\/em>: The Man-Ape of South Africa<\/a>\u201d. It was the first Australopithecus<\/em><\/a> specimen to be identified, and the first evidence that early humans evolved in\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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